Past Exhibitions | Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery

2015
Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave
Watch This! Revelations in Media Art
Special Installation of Nineteen American Masterworks
The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Mingering Mike’s Supersonic Greatest Hits
Direct Carving

2014
The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art
Richard Estes’ Realism
Untitled: The Art of James Castle
Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget
Pop Art Prints
Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection

2013
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art
A Measure of the Earth: The Cole-Ware Collection of American Baskets
Infinite Place: The Ceramic Art of Wayne Higby
Landscapes In Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes
A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image (3.0)
Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color
Pictures in the Parlor

2012
Nam June Paik: Global Visionary
The Civil War and American Art
40 under 40: Craft Futures
Abstract Drawings
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond
The Art of Video Games
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image (2.0)
Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage

2011
Multiplicity
Inventing a Better Mousetrap: Patent Models from the Rothschild Collection
Something of Splendor: Decorative Arts from the White House
Made in Chicago: The Koffler Collection
The Great American Hall of Wonders
History in the Making: Renwick Craft Invitational 2011
To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America
Close to Home: Photographers and Their Families

2010
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image (1.0)
Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow
A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection
John Gossage: The Pond
Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the Running Fence
The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946
Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Graphic Masters III: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

2009
What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect
Staged Stories: Renwick Craft Invitational 2009
Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Grand Salon Installation-Paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Jean Shin: Common Threads